The Shock Fortunate Collect – February 1974.
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Do you relish carrying hideous outfits that kill your mates curl up with embarrassment?


If so, you were in paradise in February 1974. 

It used to be, finally, the month whereby the enviornment first met the sartorial sensation that is Zardoz.

And it wasn’t essentially the most gripping memorable flick to grace our monitors, that February.

We also stumbled on our first probability to observe Blazing Saddles and Amicus’ portmanteau dread From Beyond the Grave.

Granted, I’m struggling to be aware merely which one who latter movie used to be, as, for me, all Amicus portmanteaus are inclined to blur into one.

Misfortune #20, Morbius the residing vampire

Accelerate Into Misfortune gains a fresh superstar, as Morbius the residing vampire gets his very private strip.

I will expose small of what happens on this story but I raise out know it be brought to us by Mike Friedrich and Paul Gulacy and that it facets diverse flashbacks.

But Morby is no longer alone. We’re also equipped with a reprint known as Nighttime within the Wax Museum! which sprang from the minds of Jack Oleck and Richard Doxsee.


Energy Man #17

It be execrable files for Charlie 47 on legend of Luke Cage: Hero for Hire is no longer any extra!


As a exchange, he is now Luke Cage: Energy Man! 

For certain, that won’t tag such correct files for a command giant-villain who already has that title but I’m obvious that’s a pickle which is in a region to be dealt with in a future peril.

As for what’s dealt with on this peril, that is a matter I will shed no light upon.

Savage Tales #3, Conan the Barbarian

I’m including this one purely on legend of the entrance veil’s painted by John Romita and it be no longer each day you salvage to observe Conan painted by the Jazzy one.


Inner, there’s The Lurker From the Catacombs which, as I’m obvious you know, is Fragment 2 of Thomas and Smith’s legendary retelling of Red Nails. It be the fragment whereby Conan and Valeria salvage themselves hired to defend Olmec’s half of of the fortress from the diversified half of of the fortress.

We’re also granted the spectacle of The Crimson Bell, The Fury of the Femizons and three pages of Margaret Brundage’s Uncommon Tales illustrations for Red Nails.

But what is this madness? We then salvage Fragment 3 of Thomas and Smith’s adaptation of the story, whereby imperfect’s defeated, queens are slaughtered and Conan and Valeria instructed to search out new treasures to take.

It does seem unparalleled that Shock would dissipate the last two components in a single sitting, in blueprint of saving the conclusion for the following peril.

Special Shock Version #16, Shang-Chi vs Nighttime.

It be one other Englehart/Starlin classic, as, despatched by Fu Manchu to raze our hero, Nighttime makes his debut and his departure all in a single story, thanks to a battle on a building enviornment. 


Frankly, any individual who doesn’t relish this peril doesn’t relish fights in building web sites. I would even commence to suspect they presumably perform no longer even relish fights in vehicle parks.

Vampire Tales #3, Morbius the residing vampire

Anyone at Shock clearly has faith within the selling strength of Morbius, on legend of, no longer state with dominating Accelerate Into Misfortune, he also baggage a starring role in Vampire Tales.


Or does he?

No matter him bossing the entrance veil, this peril’s lead legend’s surely The Kiss of Loss of life starring Satana, whereby a preacher ungallantly tries to occupy our anti-heroine killed.

We also bump into such tales as The Series, Create no longer Strive to Outsmart the Devil!, The complete lot You Frequently Wished to Know About Satana, Bat’s Belfry and – finally – we salvage to Morbius’ story, a thing known as Demon Fireplace!


It be brought to us by Don McGregor, Prosperous Buckler and Klaus Janson but, tragically, I will shed no light upon what surely happens in it.

Worlds Unknown #5, the Black Destroyer

It be a comic most gripping a fool wouldn’t prefer, as Shock’s premier sci-fi magazine produces its adaptation of A E van Vogt’s The Black Destroyer whereby an alien gets aboard a spaceship and proceeds to bump off the crew, one after the opposite. I will no longer wait on feeling that pickle looks acquainted from somewhere…


But we perform no longer most gripping salvage that. There might per chance be also They Wait within the Shadows! A story reprinted from 1956’s Accelerate into Unknown Worlds #47.

The Defenders #12, Xemnu the Titan


Now the enviornment’s supreme non-team are in peril. That’s thanks to the return of Xemnu the Titan who’s inconveniently taken over a dinky metropolis!

On the plus side, this is in a position to seem like the peril whereby Valkyrie first acquires her sword Dragonfang.